The Good Parts Get to Stay Too
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Host Shannon Denniston explores why you can miss who you were in a past season while also feeling relieved it's over, naming this mixed experience as ambivalence—holding two opposite feelings at the same time. She explains how we often reduce a complicated era to one flat label ("young and stupid," "so hard"), and how confirmation bias then shapes what we remember, pulling up evidence that supports the label while ignoring the good that was also there. Using 2020 as an example, she shows how a painful season can still contain moments worth reclaiming, without rewriting the hard…
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